Electronic equipment stolen from repair shop

By Francine Sawyer, Sun Journal Staff

Published: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at 02:20 PM.

Phone parts, computers, game systems, laptops and a host of other electronic equipment was stolen.

The group also dragged a Red Bull vending machine to the back of the store away from the front windows and damaged it trying to get the money out. “They left damage but did not get in the machine,” Dorsey said.

“I am tired of cleaning up behind them after they break-in. It is not just the business, but our customers are victimized as well. Some of their private information could get out; we don’t like that,” Dorsey said.

To avoid another break-in and all the damage that comes with it, security is going to be beefed up at the store. She said the windows will have metal railings or gates.

The couple has other stores in Hubert,
Jacksonville
and
Kinston
.

Francine Sawyer can be reached at 252-635-5671 or at Francine.Sawyer@newbernsj.com

For the second time in less than two months, bandits have targeted iFixNC, an electronics repair store in New Bern.

Owners think it is the same group who hit the store Sept. 9.

Kelley Dorsey, who owns the store with her husband, described the latest breaking and entering and larceny.

“Even though they busted out the video cameras in the store, we got them on tape,” Dorsey said.

She said New Bern police discovered the front glass door to the store at RiverwoodSouthPlaza on U.S. 17 South broken as they made the rounds at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Dorsey said apparently they tried to break out the glass in the front door with a heavy object. “After the September break-in we laminated the glass in the door that we replaced. This time they couldn’t break the glass, so they got a crow bar and smashed the glass and got a finger in the hole in the door to turn the lock,” she said.

She said four to five people who broke into the store concealed their identity. That is what was captured on the video before the group smashed the store surveillance camera. Police are examining the video from the store’s latest break-in.

Phone parts, computers, game systems, laptops and a host of other electronic equipment was stolen.

The group also dragged a Red Bull vending machine to the back of the store away from the front windows and damaged it trying to get the money out. “They left damage but did not get in the machine,” Dorsey said.

“I am tired of cleaning up behind them after they break-in. It is not just the business, but our customers are victimized as well. Some of their private information could get out; we don’t like that,” Dorsey said.

To avoid another break-in and all the damage that comes with it, security is going to be beefed up at the store. She said the windows will have metal railings or gates.

The couple has other stores in Hubert, Jacksonville and Kinston.

Francine Sawyer can be reached at 252-635-5671 or at Francine.Sawyer@newbernsj.com